چرخ

See also: خرج‎, جرح‎, خ ر ج‎, and ج ر ح‎

Iraqi Arabic

Etymology

From Persian چرخ‎ (čarx, “wheel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃarx/

Noun

چرخ (čarx) ?

1. wheel

Derived terms

• چرخچي‎ (čarxači)
• چراخ‎ (čarrax)

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐫝𐫍𐫡‎ (chr /čahr/, “wheel, cycle”), from Proto-Iranian *čaxrám (compare Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀‎ (caxra, “wheel”)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čakrám (compare Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá)), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“wheel, circle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaɾx/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaɾx/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæɾx/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaɾx/

Noun

Dari Persian	چرخ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чарх (čarx)

چرخ • (čarx) (plural چرخ‌ها‎ (čarx-hâ))

1. wheel
2. cart
3. sewing machine

   Synonym: چرخ خیاطی‎ (čarx xayyâti)

4. (dialectal) spool, pulley
5. (poetic) sky
6. (rare) circle

Derived terms

• دوچرخه‎ (dočarxe, “bicycle”)
• چرخاب‎ (čarxâb)
• چرخان‎ (čarxân)
• چرخچی‎ (čarxči, “carter”)
• چرخدار‎ (čarx-dâr)
• چرخ‌خورده‎ (čarx-xorde)
• چرخ‌ساز‎ (čarx-sâz)
• چرخک‎ (čarxak)
• چرخ‌انداز‎ (čarx-andâz)
• چرخیدن‎ (čarxidan, “to rotate, to spin”)
• چرخه‎ (čarxe, “spinning-wheel, cycle”)

Descendants

• → Arabic:

  Iraqi Arabic: چرخ‎ (čarx)

• → Middle Armenian: չարխ (čʿarx)
  • Armenian: չարխ (čʿarx)
• → Azerbaijani: çarx
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चरख़ा (carxā)

  Urdu: چرخہ‎ (carxā)

  • → English: charkha
• → Georgian: ჩარხი (čarxi)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چرخ‎ (çarḫ)
  • Turkish: çark
• → Yagnobi: чарх (čarx)